[cmake-developers] gitlab or github? Which should I use for contribution?

[Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad King [mailto:brad.king at kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 5:13 PM
> To: Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP
> Cc: cmake-developers at cmake.org
> Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] gitlab or github? Which should I use for
> contribution?
> 
> On 10/26/2016 10:05 AM, Stuermer, Michael  SP/HZA-ZSEP wrote:
> > Which should I choose for future contributions?
> 
> GitLab, please.  We recently updated CONTRIBUTING.rst to prefer it even
> over patches on this list.
> 
> > My feeling is I could completely abandon the github repository and
> > pull and push only to gitlab.kitware.com.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I can't see all the other branches like maint, next, nightly-* etc.
> > on the gitlab repo. Still these branches get regularly updated on
> > github. This makes me feel like the gitlab repo is somehow "incomplete".
> 
> The `maint` branch has not proven useful and may be dropped one day.
> The `next` and `nightly` branches are only for the nightly testing
> infrastructure and not something developers need to use.
> 
> The GitHub repo is just a mirror of the cmake.org repo and has always had
> the extra branches and so still does.  The GitLab repo is where we are trying
> to move development so we're populating it only with the branches needed
> by developers.
> 
> -Brad
> .

thanks for the information, exactly what I needed!